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Developing a framework for understanding health information behavior change from avoidance to acquisition: a grounded theory exploration

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Health information avoidance is common in real life, but because it is not always conducive to health promotion and maintenance, people often actively switch to health information acquisition.
Haixia Sun, Jiao Li, Ying Cheng, Xuelian Pan, Liu Shen, Weina Hua   +5 more
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Coping self-efficacy influences health information avoidance [PDF]

Journal of Health Psychology, 2020
Avoiding information about one’s health can have long-term implications for health and well-being. Two studies examined the relationship between health information avoidance and coping self-efficacy, or a sense that one can effectively cope. In Study 1, coping self-efficacy, but not general self-efficacy, was associated with information avoidance.
Jacqueline Hua, Jennifer L. Howell
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Examining the Influences of COVID-19 Information Avoidance and Uncertainty on Perceived Severity of the Pandemic: Applications from the Health Belief Model and Weick’s Model of Organizing

Health Behavior Research, 2022
Public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been insufficient at keeping the virus from spreading rapidly and threatening public health around the globe. Not only has society been challenged by biomedical issues of disease contagion, infection,
Xuewei Chen, Jati Ariati, Ming Li, Gary L. Kreps   +3 more
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From information seeking to information avoidance: Understanding the health information behavior during a global health crisis

Information Processing & Management, 2021
Individuals seek information for informed decision-making, and they consult a variety of information sources nowadays. However, studies show that information from multiple sources can lead to information overload, which then creates negative psychological and behavioral responses.
Saira Hanif Soroya, Ali Farooq 0001, Khalid Mahmood 0004, Jouni Isoaho, Shan-e Zara   +4 more
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Research on the Process and Influencing Factors of Online Diabetes Information Users’ Avoidance Behavior: A Qualitative Study

Behavioral Sciences, 2023
Users’ avoidance behavior of health information has received growing attention recently, but research into users’ avoidance behavior of diabetes information remains limited.
Caiqiang Guo, Li Si, Yifan Sun
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Exploring the roles of fear and powerlessness in the relationship between perceived risk of the COVID-19 pandemic and information-avoidance behavior

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The COVID-19 has seriously impacted various aspects of the society on a global scale. However, it is still unclear how perceived risk influences epidemic information-avoidance behavior which generally helps us understand public information avoidance ...
Kunying Zhang, Kunying Zhang, Naifu Zhang, Jie Wang, Jie Jiang, Sihua Xu   +5 more
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Dealing With the COVID-19 Infodemic: Distress by Information, Information Avoidance, and Compliance With Preventive Measures

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
In the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, media reports have caused anxiety and distress in many. In some individuals, feeling distressed by information may lead to avoidance of information, which has been shown to undermine compliance
Katharina U. Siebenhaar, Anja K. Köther, Georg W. Alpers   +2 more
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Information, Avoidance Behavior, and Health [PDF]

Journal of Human Resources, 2009
This paper assesses whether responses to information about risk impact estimates of the relationship between ozone and asthma in Southern California. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find smog alerts significantly reduces daily attendance at two major outdoor facilities.
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Automatic attitudes and health information avoidance.

Health Psychology, 2016
Early detection of disease is often crucially important for positive health outcomes, yet people sometimes decline opportunities for early detection (e.g., opting not to screen). Although some health-information avoidance reflects a deliberative decision, we propose that information avoidance can also reflect an automatic, nondeliberative reaction.
Jennifer L. Howell, Kate A. Ratliff, James A. Shepperd   +2 more
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The Relationship Between Individual Coping and the Need to Have and Seek Health Information Among Older Adults: Exploratory Mixed Methods Study

JMIR Human Factors, 2021
BackgroundThe need to have and seek information shapes the context of computing systems. When it comes to health, individual coping influences human behavior.
Theis, Sabine, Schäfer, Katharina, Schäfer, Dajana, Jochems, Nicole, Nitsch, Verena, Mertens, Alexander   +5 more
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